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Hi everyone~
It's my birthday month, and I'm trying to save up for a new laptop. As someone disabled, I heavily depend on my laptop for job search and meeting requirements for continued access to support services.
If you're able, I'd greatly appreciate any help with this goal 💕
Here's my paypal
While it's no longer my birthday month, I still greatly need help. Reblogging to spread if you can't help financially is VERY welcome.
Hi everyone~
It's my birthday month, and I'm trying to save up for a new laptop. As someone disabled, I heavily depend on my laptop for job search and meeting requirements for continued access to support services.
If you're able, I'd greatly appreciate any help with this goal 💕
Here's my paypal
While it's no longer my birthday month, I still greatly need help. Reblogging to spread if you can't help financially is VERY welcome.
i'm a multiply-disabled trans + queer adult struggling to pay bills after a truly awful couple of weeks. my disability payments aren't enough to cover it all, even budgeting as best i can.
the most important are an emergency appointment with my pain doctor ($45) and a $55 surprise vision exam bill
i'm also saving up as much as possible to be able to pay rent next month ($775), get a new mattress + pillows ($2,000+) so i won't be in so much pain when bedridden, and replace my duvet since mine is literally coming apart ($35)
urgent amount needed: $100
amount i'm hoping to raise, at least partially: $2,915
please share even if you can't donate. times are tough for everyone, i get it. even a little bit of help goes a long way.
there has only been one donation so far. it would really help if i could at least meet my short-term goal. cat pics for anyone who donates 💗
this company is so frustratingly misleading. They did not bring back the direwolf (Aenocyon dirus). They modified a modern grey wolf (Canis lupus) into having some direwolf morphology. There has been no de-extinction. This is pure hype slop. As a friend said "these are dire wolves the same way La Croix is a fruit".
I still think this tech has the potential to be helpful in a conservation context.... but it says a A LOT that these "dire wolves" look far more like something you'd see in Game of Thrones than any of the most likely reconstructions proposed by scientists who've studied the fossil record.
These pups might get more robust as they age, but right now I'm not seeing anything to get excited about. I just can't help but suspect that this species was chosen specifically bc the public already has the idea of "dire wolf = gray wolf + big", and that this company is using relatively minor CRISPR editing to give the false impression that they're recreating anything that might have conceivably lived 10,000 years ago.
Again, I think this tech is interesting and merits further development (and if jurassic park is the only way they can do that, then, I guess that's what's happening), but it's still extremely misleading to parade these animals around like they've actually 100% cloned a dire wolf.
Really reminds me of Jurassic Park. In the books, Crichton made it very clear that they didn't actually clone dinosaurs. They just combined DNA to make an animal that looked like what people EXPECT a dinosaur to look like, because it turned out that actual cloned dinosaurs were really quite dull and spent most of their time hiding.
so annoyed bc i picked stinging nettle like i always do for soup and my fingers are BLISTERING? did the spirit of my slovak grandma abandon me or what the hell
feels rly good on my knuckles where i get nerve pain ofc but the fingerpads is a sensory upset
Are you normally immune to stinging nettle?
not immune in that it doesn’t sting me! but i’m used to the sting bc i’ve always picked it. it’s just never blistered before.
me too! and i did! alas 😔
exactly and I support it in that
I was walking out of the Walmart today, and a car passed me, and I got this incredibly vivid impression. It wasn't really in words, but if I had to put it into words, the two key points would be
a). I needed to watch that car and
b). That I needed to be careful, because the driver of the car was a massive bitch.
It kind of took me by surprise, because I really had no reason to be beefing with that car, and I also hadn't really had an impression like that since I was religious, which was in my teen years. Right? It'd been a decade since I had a little voice whisper in my ear, and I'd basically written it off as nonsense.
Anyway, I watched the car, because The Spirits or whatever were very insistent that I did. Car drove fine, went into the parking spot, inched forward, and right when it should've just stopped, the driver gunned it for some reason and it ran into the curb and cracked its bumper.
So, the driver got out, and she went to the front of the car to check that yes, she had cracked her bumper, and then she turned to look at me. The parking lot wasn't empty, but we were the only two people standing in that row, and I'd probably been staring at her for tenish seconds now.
She demanded very angrily to know why I hadn't warned her of the curb. And I could have said I didn't know you were about to gun it or is it my job to help every stranger park, or even could you have even heard me, inside your car?
And all of those would have been fine, but I was really, really busy digesting that I had somehow communed with Mormon Jesus again for the first time in fifteen years, and that the communion had mostly been there to let me watch someone park badly (?), so what I responded with was:
"Because it was foretold."
And I can't tell which would be funnier, if she went silent because there's not much to be said to that, or if she went silent because in Utah, she might actually believe me, but we parted ways without more words.
I'm still kind of digesting this myself, actually.
God is real but only to tell you to look at that dumbass fail a basic parking manoeuvre
Mormon Jesus is like an ex that ghosted me for ten years, and my last text to him was something like I just don’t know what I did wrong :( and then he texted me a decade later out of the blue with dude you gotta watch this lady try to park it’s gonna be HILARIOUS lol
Btw shout-out to disabled people who feel sexual attraction but can't have sex or masturbate. Shout-out to disabled people who can't have sex or masturbate because it hurts. Shout-out to disabled people who can't have sex or masturbate because they're dependant on a caregiver. Shout-out to disabled people who can't have sex or masturbate because they're deemed "too mentally immature". Shout-out to disabled people who can't have sex or masturbate because they would be bedridden for days if not weeks on end. Shout-out to disabled people who can't have sex because they can't get into the right positions. Shout-out to disabled people who can't have sex because once their partner finds out they're disabled they refuse. Shout-out to disabled people who can't have sex because they can't go out to meet people.
Disabled people are not your uwu sexless perfect babies or broken people incapable of sexual pleasure. We deserve to be talked about in all aspects of life and the fact we aren't taught sex ed besides from an able bodied and able mental standpoint is genuinely god awful. No one talks Abt this and we deserve to be seen
Certified Sex Ed Post!
ik misogyny is real and all and I live this daily but it'll never cease to amaze me how in pop culture a woman will say smth Slightly off color and it can tank her career immediately (especiallyyyyy women of color & queer women) and then male celebrities are out there with 10k rape allegations and u still get people defending his honor like he sent their kids to private school and bought their mom's house like
hey uh if you have an unemployed person in your life and they haven't volunteered information about how the job hunt is going, it's probably because it's going badly!!!! and asking said unemployed person how it's going will only make them feel Bad because the job hunt is Bad. I guarantee you that when the unemployed person in your life has a substantial employment update they will tell you about it. otherwise don't ask unless you're literally going to offer them a job. thank youuuuu
harsh truth: Boomers just showed up
as in showed up to a place
asked hey you hiring and if they were then
for the job
just like that
an old roommate told me a story about how in the early 90s her mom showed up to this place to interview for a secretary job
guy from an office across the hall pops his head out and asks if she's here for them, a computer position
she says no nope nu uh I know nothing about computers and he goes WE'LL TRAIN YOU PLEASE WE NEED PEOPLE and yanks her off her feet and through the door
today she's a highly sought after computer technician making bank
the point is that once the economy was so amazing that you could get fired from most jobs and have a new one the following week or even the next day
Daily fucking reminder that Luigi Mangione is innocent, completely and fully. He has been convicted of no crime. He has had no fair trial. He is a SUSPECT. Luigi Mangione is entirely innocent and everyone needs to stop parroting this insidious propaganda that he “committed” the crime he is only SUSPECTED of. He is not a murderer. He is not a criminal. He is an innocent man.
Put this out about Luigi Mangione.
Something I need to be reminded of often. Yes, I'm very lazy and also have executive problems up the wazoo (the difference? laziness is fun), but the cultural expectation of being productive every waking moment isn't healthy either. And the business of feeding ourselves is especially fraught these days.
This is the same topic and screenshot that gave some of my chudliest chud haters such a meltdown after I posted it myself once, they raged at me for days and one by one dropped off of Tumblr forever. This subject kills idiots.
rudolph the red nosed reindeer
I've been feeling insane about this for a good ten years because I remember that the books that I read as a kid all had stories where the protagonist was completely normal and they found an object or a book and learning to read the book or use the magical object was what made them into the cool hero, and then part way during my childhood suddenly all the new books had heroes that were the hero because they were born the hero, and they were just temporarily uncool because they didn't know that they were born special.
And I know that these things are trends that come and go, but I'm 30 years old now and the "you can only be born special, you can't work to achieve great things" narrative just WILL. NOT. DIE. as a trend in YA lit.
Can we PLEASE go back to "find a weird book in the library and accidentally become an all powerful wizard because you can read aloud" being the dominant narrative of youth fiction?
Adding @sparkylulu 's tags because I feel like they make my point far more eloquently and succinctly than I managed to in the post about:
Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!
Happy Leland Melvin Day!
Happy Leland Melvin Day!
Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!
Being really into Frankenstein while at the same time being Chinese is so funny because every time Lord Byron gets brought up, the way his name is pronounced always makes me think of the word 白人 (bái rén), which translates into “white guy”. Lord White Guy.
